Air India and Birmingham Airport celebrate the start of daily "dreamliner" flights to Delhi and onto Amritsar

William Pearson, Birmingham Airport's Aviation Development Director (front left) and Vishwanath Panyam, Air India's Astt. General Manager (front right) are pictured with Captain Chowdry and the flight crew on board the new Air India Boeing 787 " dreamliner" service to Delhi and Amritsar from Birmingham Airport on Sunday 21 December 2014

Air India and Birmingham Airport celebrated the start of daily flights between Birmingham, Delhi and Amritsar

today, Sunday 21 December 2014 after the carrier took delivery of its 18th Boeing 787 "dreamliner"

By increasing services from four to seven, Air India now offers more than 3,500 seats on the route each week,

with additional services operating on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. This growth comes just 16 months afterlaunching the Birmingham route, which has carried around 110,000 passengers

Speaking at the launch of the new schedule on Sunday evening, William Pearson, Birmingham Airport’s Aviation

Development Director, said, "The start of this new schedule by Air India this weekend means that Midlandersnow have even more choice and direct access to India from Birmingham and we are very thankful to Air India

for recognising the huge demand in Birmingham’s catchment from business and leisure travellers"

Vishwanath Panyam, Air India’s Astt. General Manager, added, "There is a vast market in the Midlands region,

which is home more than 200,000 British-Indian people who visit India to visit friends and relatives as well as

many Indian owned businesses. Air India is therefore pleased to be able to offer more capacity and connectivity

to this market across the whole of India on the comfortable, quiet and state of the art Boeing 787 "dreamliner"

Flights arrive from Amritsar and Delhi at 1700 daily and depart from Birmingham for the return leg at 2030 each

Birmingham Aviation Enthusiast Group

"BAEG" - the BirminghamAviation Enthusiast Group,which was founded in 1999,provides an in depth forumfor movements, news andviews at Birmingham Airportand other Midlands airfields

The group has established closelinks with the Airport companywho have in recent years hostedthe annual “BHX Airport Forum”and organised visits to theControl Tower and Airport FireStation at BHX

“BAEG” has worked togetherwith both the Airport Divisionof the West Midlands Policeand the Airport Company tointroduce the “BirminghamAirport Enthusiasts SecurityScheme” - BAESS - at BHX

Membership is open to localaviation enthusiasts,

For further information aboutthe Group either speak to anyBAEG member or for up to datecontact details send an email to:gordon@airtimepublishing.co.uk

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